A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New-England: From the First Planting Thereof in the Year 1607, to the Year 1677: Containing a Relation of the Occasions, Rise and Progress of the War with the Indians, in the Southern, Western, Eastern and Northern Parts of Said Country |
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... morning , which was done , upon articles subscribed by him , and they also subscribed with him , wherein a firm peace was concluded , but because they could not make them well understand the articles , they told them they would send a ...
... morning , which was done , upon articles subscribed by him , and they also subscribed with him , wherein a firm peace was concluded , but because they could not make them well understand the articles , they told them they would send a ...
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... morning entering into the swamp , they saw several heaps of them sitting close to- gether , upon whom they discharged their pieces laden with ten or twelve pistol bullets at a time , putting the muzzles of their pieces under the boughs ...
... morning entering into the swamp , they saw several heaps of them sitting close to- gether , upon whom they discharged their pieces laden with ten or twelve pistol bullets at a time , putting the muzzles of their pieces under the boughs ...
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... morning he came and offered what they desired . So the Governor referred him to the Captains at the Pequod country , and writ instructions to them how to deal with him . So receiving his ten fathoms of wampum , they friendly dismissed ...
... morning he came and offered what they desired . So the Governor referred him to the Captains at the Pequod country , and writ instructions to them how to deal with him . So receiving his ten fathoms of wampum , they friendly dismissed ...
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... morning ; and there retarded their motion till afternoon , in hope of being overtaken by a company of volunteers , under the command of Capt . Samuel Moseley , which accordingly came to pass , so that on June 20 , they all arrived at ...
... morning ; and there retarded their motion till afternoon , in hope of being overtaken by a company of volunteers , under the command of Capt . Samuel Moseley , which accordingly came to pass , so that on June 20 , they all arrived at ...
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... morning they shouted twice or thrice , at half a mile's distance , and nine or ten of them shewing themselves on this side of the bridge , our horsemen , with the whole body of the volunteers under Capt . Mosely , not at all daunted by ...
... morning they shouted twice or thrice , at half a mile's distance , and nine or ten of them shewing themselves on this side of the bridge , our horsemen , with the whole body of the volunteers under Capt . Mosely , not at all daunted by ...
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Page 100 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page i - For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known...
Page 161 - You are a child — you cannot understand matters of war — let your brother or your chief come — him will I answer.
Page 233 - The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Page 66 - I think I can clearly say, that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Page 60 - Alexander, with about eighty men, were newly come in from hunting, and had left their guns without doors, which Major Winslow with his small company wisely seized, and conveyed away, and then went into the wigwam, and demanded Alexander to go along with him before the Governor, at which message he was much appalled ; but being told by the undaunted messenger, that if he stirred or refused to go, he was a dead man...
Page 153 - Wisdom is better than Weapons of War "), he took a stick, and hung his hat upon it, and then by degrees gently lifted it up, till he thought it would be seen and so become a fit mark for the other that watched to take aim at him.
Page 56 - That if any of his did hurt to any of theirs, he should send the offender, that they might punish him. 3. That if...
Page 226 - WOE to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled ; And dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee ! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled ; And when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Page 82 - Sachem alive, he or they so delivering shall receive for their pains forty trucking cloth coats : in case they bring his head, they shall have twenty like good coats paid them. For every living subject of said Philip's so delivered, the deliverer shall receive two coats, and for every head...